Zephyranthes citrina

Zephyranthes citrina Baker, Bot. Mag. 108: plate 6605. 1882; Fl. North Amer. @ eFloras.org 26: 300; Hippeastrum citrinum (Baker) Christenh. & Byng, Global Fl. 4: 59. 2018; Zaphyranthes sulphurea Noter, Monogr. Hort. Pl. Bulbeuses 84. 1905.

Perennial evergreen bulbiferous scapose herbs; bulbs tunicate, globose or ovoid, 2-3 cm in diameter. Leaves fascicled, linear, 37-54 cm x 3.5-4 mm, dull green. Flowers erect, solitary on top of scape; scape up to 20 cm long, 2-3 mm broad, terete; spathe 2-3 cm long, membranous, basally tubular, tube ca. 1 cm long, apex bifid or simple; pedicel ca. 3.2 cm long, usually longer than spathe. Flowers ca. 4 cm long and ca. 3 cm across, bisexual, actinomorphic, epigynous, trimerous, lemon yellow. Perianth lemon yellow, funnelform; tepals 6, connate at base; tube ca. 1 cm long, green, increasing in diameter; lobes ca. 3 cm x 8 mm, obovate, tip mucronate; tepals usually not reflexed. Stamens 6, in 2 distinctly subequal sets, inserted in nearly upper region of perianth tube; filaments filiform, 3 large of ca. 1.7 cm length, 3 small of 1.1-1.5 cm length; anthers ca. 7 mm long, distinctly curved, versatile. Ovary inferior, 3-4 mm long, 3-lobed and 3-locular, many ovules per loculus; style slender, 1.7-1.9 cm long, longer than perianth tube; stigma trilobed, lobes ca. 1 mm x1 mm, usually below or among anthers. Fruit a 3-lobed and 3-valved capsule, loculicidal, subglobose, ca. 7 mm x 14 mm; seeds many per capsule (+/- 13), 7 mm x 5 mm, flat, D-shaped, lustrous, black.

Flowering and Fruiting: July to September (mainly during rainy season)
Common Names: Yellow Rain Lily, Yellow Fairy Lily, Yellow Zephyr Lily